The Associated Press reports: Sandy Hook families who won nearly $1.5 billion in legal judgments against conspiracy theorist Alex Jones for calling the 2012 Connecticut school shooting a hoax have offered to settle that debt for only pennies on the dollar — at least $85 million over 10 years. The families’ lawyers offered Jones two options: either liquidate his estate …

NBC News reports: Former President Donald Trump will take the stand in his own defense next month in his $250 million civil fraud trial, his attorneys said in court Monday. Trump will be the defense’s last witness, on Dec. 11, his attorney Chris Kise said. In the week preceding the former president’s testimony, his son Eric Trump is scheduled to …

The Guardian reports: Fulton county prosecutors do not intend to offer plea deals to Donald Trump and at least two high-level co-defendants charged in connection with their efforts to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia, according to two people familiar with the matter, preferring instead to force them to trial. The individuals seen as ineligible include Trump, his former White …

“We’re on a tight part of the trail and I notice the dog’s all wet, and she’s like, ‘Oh, this my dog, you know, kind of wet, he just swam in the pond,’ and I’m thinking, this is kind of crazy. You’re letting your dog swim in a pond, 37 degrees in a nature preserve? That’s my first clue. “Second …

“The No. 1 hurdle for Donald Trump is I’ve never met a dad or a mom or a grandpa or a grandma who have told me they want their son or daughter, grandchild to grow up to be like him. That’s a big deal. “And then because I don’t endorse you, to throw me under the bus, my family under …

ABC News reports: Speaking with special counsel Jack Smith’s team earlier this year, former Vice President Mike Pence offered harrowing details about how, in the wake of the 2020 presidential election, then-President Donald Trump surrounded himself with “crank” attorneys, espoused “un-American” legal theories, and almost pushed the country toward a “constitutional crisis,” according to sources familiar with what Pence told …

“You have to be part of a society whenever you, you know, become a citizen of another country, and I think, you know, people are starting to see in a lot of even school systems right now where they’re teaching things in English, and they’re teaching them in Spanish, because we have had so many people coming from South America, …

Billboard Magazine reports: Dolly Parton’s Rockstar blasts in at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart (dated Dec. 2), scoring the music legend her first leader on the 32-year-old tally. Rockstar bows with 118,500 copies sold in the U.S. in the week ending Nov. 23, according to Luminate. That marks biggest sales week for an album in the modern …

The Messenger reports: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., delivered remarks on the Senate floor on Monday in which he called for lawmakers to support an aid package that would provide funding for Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan, and the southern border. “The bottom line is simple: We don’t have the luxury of addressing glaring threats to our national security one at …

Fox News reports: Former first lady Melania Trump is expected to join her contemporaries and other leaders at a memorial tribute service for the former first lady Rosalynn Carter. Trump will be joined by other living former first ladies – including Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton and Laura Bush – the Carter Center said Monday in a news release announcing the …

Tampa’s NBC affiliate reports: Speaker Mike Johnson visited the Sarasota Bradenton International Airport Monday morning along with other members of the Florida Delegation. A release from Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Florida, said the officials were there to get a tour of the airport’s expansion project. In total, the project will cost $100 million to add a five-gate terminal, a four-lane security …

ABC News reports: Eric Trump needed help with the Trump Organization’s finances after the company’s chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg was removed from his role following his indictment in 2021, according to Trump Hotels executive Mark Hawthorn. According to Hawthorn’s testimony, the company relied on an outdated and inefficient approach to bookkeeping, including authorizing only three individuals — Weisselberg, Donald …

Raw Story reports: Judge Tanya Chutkan just shut down Donald Trump’s latest conspiracy theory. According to a court filing, Trump requested that prosecutors turn over “missing materials” from the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack and attempt to overthrow the 2020 election. But, according to a response from Chutkan Monday, those “missing materials” don’t exist and thus can’t …

The Associated Press reports: Springfield Preparatory School, bills itself as an umbrella school for Christian homeschoolers. Most students there do attend the school to work toward an education through actual classes or tutoring. However, principal Kitty Sibley Morrison is also willing to grant a diploma to anyone whose parents say they were homeschooled, even years earlier. Morrison says she is …

ABC News reports: In their filing this morning arguing against the trial’s limited gag order, Trump attorneys Clifford Robert, Chris Kise, and Alina Habba downplayed Trump’s connection to the threats against Judge Engoron and his clerk, and argued that they do not justify the gag order’s limit on Trump’s constitutional right to free speech. “The president has never threatened her …

Sports Illustrated reports: College football fans might have thought that food celebrations at bowl games reached their zenith at the Duke’s Mayo Bowl, where the winning coach gets a tub of mayonnaise dumped over his head. However, the bar has now been raised. (Or lowered, depending on your opinion.) The new Pop-Tarts Bowl won’t just have a mascot that interacts …

The Messenger reports: A New York judge on Monday rejected a request by Donald Trump’s attorneys to call a retired federal judge appointed to monitor and potentially, dissolve the former president’s business empire as a defense witness in his civil fraud trial. In 2022, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron appointed ex-U.S. District Judge Barbara Jones to serve as a …

As I reported yesterday, GOP Rep. Mike Gallagher and GOP rep turned Fox host Sean Duffy had a hissy fit over the Satanic Temple’s Xmas tree at a Wisconsin museum. Today Catholic League president Bill Donohue also blows his top in his usual fashion: The National Railroad Museum in Green Bay, Wisconsin is hosting a Festival of Trees representing 66 …

New Orleans’ CBS affiliate reports: The Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office said a man at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport in Kenner, allegedly escaped through the emergency hatch and ran out onto the tarmac Sunday night. The plane was still parked at the terminal and had yet to push back from the gate for takeoff. Witnesses told media that the …

Mediaite reports: Fox News’ Kayleigh McEnany claimed Hamas would not have attacked Israel if her former boss, Donald Trump, were still in charge. McEnany made the claim during a discussion with liberal commentator Marie Harf who said the Biden administration has been negotiating “very powerfully” with Hamas over releasing hostages taken during the Oct. 7 attack. “Marie, in all due …